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I've found a few tiny caterpillars on my raspberries. 1/4" long, green, tiny little things. They seem to knit a web on the underside of the leaf then pull it in around them to make a cosy shelter.

I am squishing them when I find them.

Anyone know what they are?

Sounds like a type of sawfly, although my bug-book only lists apple, gooseberry and plum sawflies.

Obviously you don't want to spray with an insecticide on an edible crop, so - keep squishing!!

valmarg

Might be the larvae of the Raspberry beetle

Quote from: pye on July 02, 2007, 21:46:54
I've found a few tiny caterpillars on my raspberries. 1/4" long, green, tiny little things. They seem to knit a web on the underside of the leaf then pull it in around them to make a cosy shelter.

I am squishing them when I find them.

Anyone know what they are?

pye, we've got the same on some of ours, they curl the leaf around themselves and the fruit and eat a channel through the top of the fruit, sound like yours?  :)

manics that's them!

Only got my first ripe fruit a couple of days ago and there was one noshing away at it!  >:(

What are they? Shall I just keep squishing?

no idea, I've been squishing like mad, managing to keep them at bay and get some fruit, hope you can do the same  ;D